Search
Search your data across all the Alloy Apps
Use Alloy's powerful search to find the data you're looking for. Search across the Alloy Apps for any type of item or feature type, including designs, interfaces, boards, layers, workflows and more!
When searching for items of a specific design/interface, Alloy will search the contents of every attribute on every item. This lets you search for items based on their stored data, which isn't necessarily included in their title/subtitle. If you're concerned about sensitive data, it's possible for Text attributes to be unsearchable 🚫.
The search results will only include things that you have permission to view!
How to search
To start searching from Alloy Home or any other app:
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Select Search in the top app bar to open the Search window. On mobile devices 📱, select in the top-right corner.
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If necessary, select on the left to clear the previous search category and on the right to clear any previous terms from the search box.
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Set the context of the search:
Search within a suggested category
Select the top-left Search for button to show a list of suggested search categories and choose one to continue. To customise this list and enable more categories, see Search categories.
Depending on the app you're using, some context-specific categories may be available, e.g. in the Boards app, you can choose "Items in active board".
Locations is a special category that lets you search for any address or landmark and locate it on the map. To learn more, see Location search.
Search for items of a design/interface
To search for items of a particular design or interface, start typing any part of its name in the search box and select it from the suggestions that appear.
Choosing an interface lets you search the items of all designs that implement it. However, only their interface attributes will be searched.
For example, searching the Jobs interface will search the items of all your job designs. Their inherited attributes (e.g. Description, Completion Time) will be searched but not the attributes defined on their designs.
NoteIf no suggestions appear, make sure the top-left Search for button doesn't have a category set. If it does, select to clear it.
An initial set of results is displayed, listing everything in your chosen search context.
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To search the results, enter one or more terms into the search box, and then press the Enter key. You can search for text, numbers, dates or times. Alloy will display all results that contain full or partial matches. To learn more, see Flexible search terms.
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Select a result to open it in the relevant Alloy app. To open it in a new browser tab, use middle-click or Ctrl-click.
Filter results
If available for the chosen search context, select Advanced search on the right. Use these settings to filter your search results in various ways, e.g. only show designs that implement the Assets interface.
Select Apply to filter the results according to your settings. To clear these settings (but not the search box), select Reset.
Advanced search
Access Policies
Only show access policies which:
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Target design or interface - apply to the selected design, or a design that implements the selected interface.
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User group - apply to the selected group.
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Tags - have one or more of the specified tags set.
Boards
Only show boards which:
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Query - meet the conditions of a custom query created with the AQS Builder. Configure the root node to filter board items by their collection. Add any number of logical and conditional nodes to the query to filter the resulting boards accordingly.
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Mine - were created by you.
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Shared - are shared specifically with you.
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Public - are shared with everyone in your customer project.
Designs
Only show designs which:
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Child design or interface - have a Link attribute that points to the selected design, or a design that implements the selected interface.
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Implements interface - implement the selected interface.
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User group - are accessible to the selected group.
Interfaces
Only show interfaces which:
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Child design or interface - have a Link attribute that points to the selected design, or a design that implements the selected interface.
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Implemented by design or interface - are implemented by the selected design or interface.
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Implements interface - implement the selected interface.
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User group - are accessible to the selected group.
Groups
Only show groups which:
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Role - include the selected role.
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User - include the selected user directly or via a role.
Items of a design/interface
Only show items which:
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Query - meet the conditions of a custom query created with the AQS Builder.
Configure the query's root node to filter items by their collection. If you're searching for items of an interface, you can also specify a compatible design/interface (one which implements that interface).
Add any number of logical and conditional nodes to the query to filter the resulting items accordingly.
Item canvases
Only show item canvas views which:
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Design or interface - apply to the selected design, or a design that implements the selected interface.
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Mine - were created by you.
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Shared - are shared specifically with you.
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Public - are shared with everyone in your customer project.
Item forms
Only show item forms which:
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Design or interface - apply to the selected design, or a design that implements the selected interface.
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User group - are accessible to the selected group.
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Actions - can be used when performing any of the selected item actions (create, edit, view).
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Tags - have any of the specified screen tags set.
Layers
Only show layers which:
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User group - are accessible to the selected group.
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Visualisations - have any of the selected visualisation types enabled.
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Tags - have any of the specified tags set.
Lists
Only show lists which:
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Query - meet the conditions of a custom query created with the AQS Builder. Configure the root node to filter list items by their collection. Add any number of logical and conditional nodes to the query to filter the resulting lists accordingly.
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Mine - were created by you.
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Shared - are shared specifically with you.
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Public - are shared with everyone in your customer project.
Roles
Only show roles which:
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User group - are included in the selected group.
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User - include the selected user.
Users
Workflows
Only show workflows which:
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Design or interface triggering on - are triggered by the selected design, or a design that implements the selected interface.
This can include manual workflows and event workflows triggered by an event (create, edit, delete) that happens on any items of the selected design/interface.
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User group - are accessible to the selected group.
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Is enabled? - are currently active.
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Trigger type - match any of the selected workflow types.
Workspaces
Only show workspaces which:
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Query - meet the conditions of a custom query created with the AQS Builder. Configure the root node to filter workspace items by their collection. Add any number of logical and conditional nodes to the query to filter the resulting workspaces accordingly.
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Mine - were created by you.
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Shared - are shared specifically with you.
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Public - are shared with everyone in your customer project.
Open in Data Explorer
Want to view your search results in more detail? If you're for searching items, select the button in the blue bar to open them in the Data Explorer app, where you can view their attribute values and perform actions with them.
Similarly, if you're searching for designs and interfaces, you can select the button beside a result to open its items in the Data Explorer app.
Search by ID
If you know an item's ID number, you can access it directly. Simply type or paste it into the search box and select the suggestion that appears.
You can also do this with the Global Unique Code (Guc) of a feature, e.g. workflows_invoiceCalculation.
Recently viewed
For easy access to the things you've previously viewed, open the Recent tab. It includes features and items from across the Alloy Apps, including any advanced searches you've made. To remove something from the list, select its button.
